NHS Reform - A towering conundrum

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The proposed NHS reforms still pose too many questions for many people. Dominic Howard analyses pressures within the health service that need to be taken seriously

 As a nation, the fabric of our lives includes wet summers, the continued search for a Wimbledon champion, traffic jams, stunning countryside, a brilliant capital, hopeless train services and Sunday roasts. Notwithstanding the digital revolution and abominations such as Glee, little appears to have changed in the environment in which our children find themselves and that includes the all-pervasive monolith we call the NHS. Despite having had access to private medical insurance (PMI) for most of my working life, I have used it only once, finding the NHS to be perfectly adequate and, in...

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